Category Archives: MOOCs

Due to recent presentations I’ve done and feedback from the Inquiry MOOC Leadership Team and workshop presenters, I am changing the name of the Inquiry MOOC to a TOOC:  Targeted Open Online Course.  Since I have no apologies about offering … Continue reading →

It seems the MOOC critics are everywhere and with some merit.  I have been teaching online since the mid 1990s and have registered for a few MOOCs.  I’ll admit that I am among those MOOC pariticipants who has registered, logged … Continue reading →

Now that the Inquiry MOOC is completed, data analysis, interpretation and reflection can begin.  Jeffrey Pomerantz from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offered a Coursera MOOC entitled Metadata: Organizing and

Here’s a post from Holly, the Inquiry MOOC Teaching Assistant: Hello all, Holly here.  Being involved as a TA for the MOOC has been a positive learning experience for me, as it was a new venture into a diverse community … Continue reading →

The Inquiry MOOC is now in its 7th week…about half way through the course.  The course opened with 200 participants registering prior to the 1st week.  At the end of Week 1, 62 participants submitted a discussion rubric, 31% of … Continue reading →

The MOOC continues to go well.  Of the 200 original registrations, between 50-60 have posted discussion rubrics each of the 1st two weeks of class.  Approximately 15 students have declared that they are planning to complete the course at

The MOOC opened on Monday, September 23 and things seem to be going well. The only glitch was that Open Courses experienced a one and a half hour “system down” episode early Monday evening.  We didn’t hear any complaints from

It’s reality!  The MOOC was approved and we are in the process of registering folks.  Let’s see if I can recap the happenings.  After several meetings with MSU support staff…this really is a team effort and I want to give … Continue reading →

  The discussions about the creation of a MOOC continue  At this point it seems that the best option for us is to use D2L’s MOOC platform.